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What is a Free MMOG?

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley has been taking a lot of heat over his
choices
for the best free-to-play games. He thought it'd be easy to explain his
selection criteria until he sat down to do it....

Danny "Ralsu" Gourley has been taking a lot of heat over his
choices
for the best free-to-play games. He thought it'd be easy to explain his
selection criteria until he sat down to do it. Then he realized that
it's a very subjective process. Rather than getting more prescriptive
in his process, he ended up less so. What's the deal?

To be completely honest, even I (a huge proponent of
F2P
gaming and microtransaction models) find the quality of F2P games
leaves a lot to be desired. Atlantica
Online is far and away the exception to the rule, and the
title from NDOORS is good enough to stand toe-to-toe with P2P offerings
like Warhammer
Online in my opinion.